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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work today, unless you work at main Microsoft campus, in which case, wait until summer

April 24, 2008 Apr 24, 2008 04/24/08

Raymond Chen

Today is the fourth thursday of April, which is national Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. The main Microsoft campus is not participating today, but there's a good reason for this. The Washington State Assessment of Student Learning, better known as the WASL (pronounced "WAH-s'l"), is a four-day battery of standardized tests ...